Guild Wars 2

It may not be the perfect solution but this idea would be something in the meantime. Any time you have a way for players to vote in game rather than outside the game I think you reach more people so if anything it could also be a way to test future voting for all sorts of things and not just gem store related.

The vote we have atm (or over already?) for deciding the guild name for our PS heroes is a good example. Having the players vote and decide on things like this is an excellent idea/feature. But having it out of the game and forum related I think is not the best way to go. Many people like to just “play the game” and do everything related to it IN the game. Many shy away from discussions or even votes if it’s outside the game. Even if they do find the topics interesting or important to them.

Cool idea. Way back before megaservers happened I saw a Vet Jellyfish taking on and actually beat the champ shark in Southsun. All that HP regen the jellyfish had made it so op.

Carebear Fanboy!

Uh oh, I fear some poor horse is going to get beaten soon……

But while we are at it, if you get your motorcycle I want my flying Harley!

I main an Engi and always planned to get it for him. Engi’s skills are really only good for 2 things tho:

1 – Reflecting the odd skill out their that can kill you if not dodged or reflected. A good example are the Karka attacks.

2 – Bar breaking. Skills 4 and 5 both do a lot of bar breaking so if you are in the hot maps often or take on many bosses/enemies that need bar breaking done a lot this is a good way of doing it. Of course as an Engi if you do take shield atm you will also need to take the pistol. Skill 3 there also does some bar breaking, not a heck of a lot but it’s still some. Of course if you also have the FT equipped all of these in combo with skill 3 FT adds up to some nice bar breaking abilities.

Anyone who say’s Engi shield is useless obviously knows nothing or very little of bar breaking and how it can have a big impact in many cases. :P

PS, oh and also Engi is probably the best class to use shield for the shield killing achieve. Both skills can kill ambients and thus get the kill count up. I’m about 85% of the way through it now just from killing ambients as I go along doing other stuff lol…

Considering you used the word “Salvager” in your OP of course people will deduce you were posting about salvaging and then depositing.

paShadoWn.5723:

Heh Paul you just proved your inability to read op properly where it says “clicking on gear”.

TBH your whole OP was very vague and so too have been your replies. People have been trying to help you here and you have been making it hard for them. :P

So if you HAVE been depositing by doing so on each individual stack the problem is already solved for you. Use the drop down menu.

Interesting ideas. I wouldn’t say no this (or something similar) at all. However I am sure naysayers will come along and say something along the lines of “but we are the heroes! How can I feel heroic or like the hero when NPC’s are doing my job?”

Good luck with the thread!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ANet’s use of “sale” is entirely “proper”. It is, however, foolish.

In American & British English, “sale” refers to both discounting and simply making something available. Notable example: people ask all the time when the next iPhone is going “on sale” (i.e. when is the first day they can buy one) as well is when is the iPhone going “on sale” (i.e. when can we get it for a discount).

However, as everyone here seems to agree: it’s confusing. The point of language is to communicate clearly. The point of marketing is to communicate in a way that encourages people to buy more. The use of the word “sale” in both contexts defeats both those goals.

I recommend that ANet’s marketing team restrict the use of the word “sale” to when there’s a discount from the usual price. “Available now” and “limited availability” are perfectly good terms for when an item returns to the gem shop for a limited time.

Hmm strange, here where I live most people understand the concepts and differences between “for sale” and “on sale”. Maybe anet just needs to make it clearer which is which or even explain the two different concepts to the general population? O.O

I just checked the clovers from PvP chests and it seems only a few non repeatable chests give 7. The rest generally give 2. But still, better than nothing while you are just having fun playing pvp.

I also agree with penelopehannibal, sure more things for shards would be nice, but clovers would be far too much unless it was say like 1 clover for perhaps a few hundred shards. Even then only a few people would be able to afford them and there would probably be a lot of people then complaining they are too expensive and not really creating another viable option for shard spending.

For now we still can use extra shards for upgrading WvW siege and selling so that is always an option.

That would make them too easy to get I am afraid. There is an alternative – PVP chests, you already can get them from those fairly easy enough. On average I get about 7 each time I choose them as the reward from the chest.

I’m getting the “can not connect to guild server” message often again now. Perhaps it’s related to that?

A much better solution would be to give us more chat privacy options as discussed here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Privacy-Discussion-merged/first

Bump it up, give it more attention and then maybe something will finally get done about it.

Do you deposit from the drop down menu or individually from each and every stack? Surely the “thousands” of deposit clicks you are doing is over a period of a week or so right and not something you have to do daily. Well not if you are using the drop down deposit at least anyway.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I’m happy the Devs have heard player feedback and pleased those that this affects. I’ve read many posts about this issue, but it has never bothered me. I rarely hear any other character, and I guess I’ve tuned out my own…not sure.

Anyway, thanks, Devs! =)

I had this same experience on my old computer. I NEVER heard my own chars speak and rarely heard other people’s chars speak either. As soon as I got my new computer recently however I started hearing them all and it was like a new game to me. So it must have been sound issues for my old computer which I had always suspected.

As others have said, hearing those queues by downed players can be very helpful and immersive too. So again, this is a good reason as to why I wont be turning them off. But those 2issues that I mentioned I wish they would address lol.

Danikat.8537:

Paulytnz.7619:

Edit: Oh just thought of another annoying thing. Rangers saying “I chose you” when they change pets. Chose? Shouldn’t be choose? O.O

Chose is past tense. Which is appropriate since you have to tame and equip pets in advance before you can swap to them.

Yes but you are saying it as you are choosing your next pet to use. So what you are saying should be related to what you are doing, not something you did maybe months or years ago……

Makes no sense to me.

A nice addition but I probably wont use it as these things don’t annoy me. Actually one thing does annoy me that I wish they would change. That being every time I use both my dodges the silly out of endurance speech is said. Why is it said? I know I am out of energy no need to tell me every time! You should only be told that if you try and dodge a third time……

I will not use this option just to avoid that as I like hearing all the other chatter. So please anet, address the dodge dialogue.

Edit: Oh just thought of another annoying thing. Rangers saying “I chose you” when they change pets. Chose? Shouldn’t be choose? O.O

1 – Player Housing.
2 – Unlimited stack amounts. (By this I mean your collections tabs and inv stacks can go beyond the 250 to be an infinite amount. I know it’s possible as another game I used to play does it).

3 – Infinite Transmute Charges.
4 – All future expansions free of charge.
5 – Access to all future released Gem Store items (Outfits/Skins/Gathering Tools/etc).

You see where this is going? Basically since I would be paying cash monthly why would I ever need (or be expected) to spend any in the gem store? Those items should come free to me.

That would be just for starters, for a sub I would expect lot more.

I found what it was in the wardrobe bank tab – Zodiac. Not the best armour in general and it is a gem purchase. But I still swear they got the light and medium mixed up. Either that or they intended for both medium and light classes to have at least 1 option to look like a different weight class.

Also I have to repeat what a few others have said. Try some different colours. Sometimes on some materials you need to use a different colour to match what you are using on a different material (or in this case on your char’s skin colour). You may just find the right colours if you try this.

If I recall there was an outfit or armour that came into the game where I could swear Anet made a mistake. That being that the medium armour looked more like Light armour to me (looked like a set a mage would use) and the Light armour looked more correct for Medium. To this day I swear they have yet to see their mistake. I can’t recall the name yet or if it is still in the game atm but I will log in soon and have a quick check. This could be an option for you if it is still available.

Edit: I can’t see it in the gem store currently so it may come back sometime. Also has to be an armour set as outfits can be worn by any weight class. Sorry my reply was no help in the log run.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Lambent.6375:

penelopehannibal.8947:

So you mean, you still pull the trigger, but the range is only close combat? Isn’t that just using pistols as they are already, but close up?

No, current pistols can be used at a range of 900, the new “Melee” pistol stills would not be able to use their skills from a range of 900.

Exactly my point. Your suggestion, whilst I understand the image of it, is basically taking away x amount of range, but doing the same thing. You’ve got a pistol that shoots bullets, but you have to run to your opponent. Doesn’t make sense to me that.

It kind of makes sense to me. If we look at it your way that’s like saying:

“why use melee weapons at all when every class has access to ranged weapons, after all with melee weapons have you to run to your oppnt?”

I could see one of the skills being hit your enemy with the butt of your pistol (similar to what warrior has with rifle) but apart from that I have no ideas.

Hmmm.

I could see when they finally give us the Skritt playable race that they could use pistols by throwing them at their enemies. Now that could be cool. :P

For low level Cloth and Leather I save up all the champ and normal bags that I get and open them up on lower lvl alts. I have a lvl 40 Ele and 50 Guardian that I use for pvp and they happen to be the perfect lvls for the cloth/leather I am usually in need of. For those of you who have spare char slots it may be worth looking into. Make good use of all those level up tomes that everyone seems to find no use for.

Capes man capes! This could be the perfect way to add capes to the game and a tongue-in-cheek way for anet to say to us:

Okay you asked for them and for many years so here they are finally, capes! But sadly guys you can only use them to glide!

Failing that I would like either a flying Harley or an umbrella.

I am a noob and just had the same issue. So I sent in a bug report but then I found out what the issue is. You only craft the “blueprint” so to speak. It goes into that machine thing right next to the Scribing station and you have to complete the craft there. Once done it will go into your storage area.

Since HOT released I have secretly been hoping that Player Houses would come with the next expansion. And why not? After all we could say that the guild hall decorations and customization may have indeed been a testing ground for Anet with regards to the player housing part.

Also they wowed us in HOT with Gliding and the Guild Halls/decorations part. So again I say why not? They will have to do something pretty cool to wow us again like they did the first time around. So I am still hoping for it!

Hey OP I main an Engi and he too is my LW and Huntsman crafter and it makes perfect sense for him to have those crafts as he is a medium class just as Ranger is. My Ranger is my Cook and Jeweller since I have my Engi as the other 2. Then I have other classes for the other crafts that also suit them.

So it’s fine how you have them now but if it’s just for role-play/preference as you say then I guess it could bug you lol.

I am not totally sure what you mean if you are saying that setting “W” to Auto run is not working for you? If this is not what you mean then there is an option there, just as I mentioned. Set your “W” to auto run. It works perfectly fine for me. I get precision movement just like everybody else and just press “W” again or “S” to stop running.

Then again am I totally off here and you mean you just want to walk slow and not the semi run/jog normal game speed we do? If that’s what you mean then no, that is the only option to walk, the toggle on and off. But even that works perfectly for me. I have it set to “Insert” so I can easily turn it on and off when needed. Which is rare, usually just for fun/roleplay when doing any escort event if the npcs are real slow.

I feel your pain, this was me last season and again soon once I unlock the “5 wins per class” again for this season.

All I can say is tell yourself and your team mates if they complain “hey man, don’t hate the player hate the game (or in this place the makers)”. Tell them if they want to complain to bring it to the forums for the removal of these achievements.

Spartacus.3192:

Paulytnz.7619:

I remember one guy called me out too for being on a class just for the achievements. He said “hey guys we lost because 1 of our guys is here on a sub par class for achieves”. The funny part was I was second highest in points while he was at the bottom. Once I mentioned that fact he quickly left the map.

Waiting for that moment when you realize that having more points in the match does not equal to being better than the guy below you.

Oh I do understand that, in fact my points usually are lower as I run from point cap to point to back cap/help defend and leave without capping myself. But this guy barely had 30 points if I remember and I was at least 200 even with me running from points without full capping them….

The one to Rule.2593:

It really is annoying having to play classes you aren’t as good with as your main.

Yes but that would remove all of the cannon fodder, they wont do that!

Pssst, I am in total agreement, my MMR is probably bad as I was going for those achieves last season and some of the classes were so useless, was nigh impossible to get wins. Add to that other people are also on classes they are not so good with as well for the same achievements = big, bad mess.

I remember one guy called me out too for being on a class just for the achievements. He said “hey guys we lost because 1 of our guys is here on a sub par class for achieves”. The funny part was I was second highest in points while he was at the bottom. Once I mentioned that fact he quickly left the map.

The problem with is that the other 3 players (not in the duo) on the red team should be expecting to get into matches against other solo players or at worst vs a 4 man premade on the other team. So really for these other 3 players, to them it may seem unfair and that they are NOT in a solo queue.

However it did seem to be a good close game. So I guess we wait and see how many more similar posts like these come along and if they will continue to be close/fair games or landslides.

Umm so you wanted ALL thieves to change class? I think that’s asking for a bit too much. Are you saying the class is not viable at all currently in pvp? O.O

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ok. I’m confused here. If you need it for map completion, why can’t you simply walk up to it?

Like Just said, you need to walk up to it. Besides even if it wasn’t contested you cant teleport to it yet anyway as you need to unlock it for world complete lol….

That’s not too bad, thanks for the info.

Why this will never happen and something we should ALL be thankful for:

Stolen accounts. How fun would it be for you to find out your account was stolen and then the person who stole it decides to delete it just for laughs?

Yeah, not gonna happen thankfully. Besides I think if you really do want to delete your account you can do so by contacting customer support. They may go through a verification process to determine you are the true owner however, not sure.

I main an Engi and like the OP I too still run with the FT Juggernaut build as it is very viable. As to the other kits, I think they have their uses. With my FT I also use Rocket Boots for mobility and extra Burn cond from the F Skill which is big damage on a very short cooldown.

My 3rd Utility is the Elixir gun kit which the OP failed to have a good look at I think. I mainly slot it for the F skill, a very nice stun breaker and also a nice extra regen for when I need it (as well as extra might and cond clear from the traits that have these effects on elixirs). Also some people may not have noticed but if you use the F skill when ressing someone it gets them up a little bit quicker. Apart from that the other skills also have their uses. You can use skill 5 then 4 to give yourself and allies retaliation, very helpful in boss fights and pvp/wvw situations. Skill 2 can be excellent in pvp/wvw as it will help you kite melee opnts a bit more easier since it slows them and gives you and allies swiftness on a pretty short cooldown. Skill one will keep the cond damage up so if you build for that in pvp even more advantages to this kit.

One last trick that I can pull off from time to time in pvp/wvw that may leave some ppl scratch their heads is as follows. Say you are trying to disengage or run from the enemy zerg and you have just used your rocketboots to get away from them but they are still on your tail, what do you do? You turn to face them but instead of attack them like they may expect, you hit skill 4 on the Elixir gun which will make you jump backwards giving you more distance from them, then you quickly turn back around and continue on your way. This silly little trick has saved my tail on numerous occasions. Some have even been a few steps away from a castle/tower entrance and used right you can jump right through the door lol.

Okay now to some of the other kits:

Grenade Kit: I don’t like spamming 1 so I never use it on land. However in water combat when you need some distance and aoe damage it can be very good. No spamming here as the skill 1 is auto.

Bomb Kit: If built right it can be ok but again I think you get the most out of this kit in water combat. Especially against enemies that like to be up in your face all the time. It’s a kit so use it if you run the HP regen from kits trait.

Mortar: Much more usable than it’s old version. But again the spammy skill 1 can be annoying and a put off. I do however put up with it for pvp/wvw as the 1500 range makes up for it. The F skill can also be a good one. But for pve, not worth it, maybe if they made skill 1 auto. I don’t see why they don’t tbh as it would not be so powerful in pvp/wvw since you really need to lead your target anyway, it will just miss more often. So make it auto but deal with the fact it will only be so good vs enemies not moving.

Toolkit: can be a fun troll kit in WvW for the pull and confusion. The block which seems to last 5 seconds (not 3 like the tool tip says) can be excellent for running through zergs to help get you inside a tower to help defend it. However have not used in a long time tho, maybe with the right build it can still be viable. Best used with turrets tho I should think for the repairing mechanic. However in general turrets just suck so why bother lol? When I say turrets suck, think boss fights.

What else is there?

Med Kit?: Total joke, not even worth looking at.

Oh just one last thing for the OP. If you are running a tanky build then yes some of those kits may seem bad for you. FT is perfect for tanky builds. But the grenade and bomb you may want to try a more zerk or heavy hitter build.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

For me, the music of Guild Wars (One) is some of my favorites, as it reminds me of play-gone-past. Please don’t remove it; I love Maclaine and Lena’s music, but there’s something about being reminded of what we did 250 years ago, as well.

Thank you in advance. =)

It would be nice if they gave us some more options in the music settings. In another game I used to play they let you open the music list and even select which track played right then and there. Added to that was a check box next to every single song so you could choose which to play in the rotation and turn off those that you really dislike.

Something like that could go a LONG way here for QOL.

Cody Crichton.7516:

Seems to me like you’re mostly after music playing more often than not and that the silence between tracks is bumming you out. In the sound options panel [F11] there’s a slider toward the bottom called Music Interval. Crank this bad boy all the way to the left and you’ll have less silence in between musical tracks. Is that helpful at all?

If that’s no good and you’d just like more options for music in areas of the game, custom playlists might be your savior. Check out this page here for a run-down on how to set it up:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack

If you’ve got the GW2 soundtrack files, you can change up the game’s score to a certain extent. Fill the cities up with your favorite tunes if that’s your thing.

Cheers!

I have my length between music set to the minimum meaning there should be no gap in theory. However in some places I (can’t think of them off the top of my head as I mostly have music off now days) when I do have music on there can be periods of up to 5 mins of no music!

To the ambient sounds, for me they seemed bugged at the moment as the volume slider seems to not work after a few seconds, I have made a post about it in the bugs section.

Back to the music. I love all the new music (HOT maps and LA) but sadly now besides the music on the char select screen I just don’t like it anymore, well most of it anyway. Especially the GW1 music, it just seems out of place and out dated now. Don’t get me wrong Jeremy whoever was great and did great work back then, but today in the GW2 environment it just seems out of place to me. I suggest giving the current music designer (of the HOT maps and LA) a pay rise and get him to create some new, up to date music for central Tyria, music that pumps you up and matches the excitement of the game. Don’t even get me started on the music for Divinity’s Reach, it’s the most boring music ever and I probably pick up on that since that is the city where I spend the most of my time. But seriously, that has to go lol!

DeceiverX.8361:

Sniper thief is about the worst possible balance decision they could make for the class, though. It’d have game-wide consequences if balanced just even within the confines of the next batch of elites. It’s just too strong.

Yea, it fits conceptually, but it’s not even remotely possible to balance reasonably well without giving other professions mechanics which invalidate all other existing builds. That’s unreasonable just for the additions to one class.

Rifle in that case is either sustained damage with no stealth and no burst or a control-oriented weapon with low damage. I can safely say any sniping ability with even close to a 2.0 coefficient is game-breaking for the thief at 1200-1500 range with stealth capacity.

Usually when we take an elite line we have to sacrifice something. If it’s done right it could just be that stealth is not needed when using a rifle. They have to find new ways for people to play thief, needing stealth in almost every build pigeon holes people too much and gives the class very little variety. Rifle or not Thief needs a long range option to help balance out all the classes. As for stealth that may or may not need to be taken in to consideration. I think Thief has a few issues at the moment with regards to stealth, one is its one of the only other ways for Thief to heal himself. Maybe if Anet addressed that, stealth may not be needed so much in builds and variety could be more possible.

Besides all that look how they added a long range option to guardian and not making it too over powered (as in not so much so better than Ranger, yes I still prefer a ranger LB over Guardian), the same could/should be done for thief.

Haven’t thought about it too much but I do think it’s about time that Thief got a long range weapon.

Rifle could be good, make them the “Sniper” class since thief is all about big damage while trying to stay out of sight as mush as possible. I would leave the skills up to anet to figure out.

Edit: I posted before reading everyone else’s ideas, after looking over them just now it seems that Thief and rifle is a common thought for a lot of people.

RobotInProgress.9782:

penelopehannibal.8947:

A Miniature Doppelgänger (i.e. a Mini Me) because I’m so vain.

Would think this would be quite fun but I’d think it would be a pain to implement, purely based on all the armour skins

It shouldn’t be that hard I would imagine. After all they manage to get our chars and their armours in story cut scenes.

I think in Anet’s view even the system how it is now we should feel lucky. Back before the wardrobe system we could only transmute gear that was under lvl 80. We could only do 80 by buying the special version of transmutes from the gem store.

Also when buying an outfit or armour set you could only use it on one char, no such thing as “unlocks” then. If you wanted it on more than 1 char you had to buy it again from the gemstore for the full price.

So once again while I do agree with the OP here, from anet’s view they probably think they have given us too much already….

Capes would be nice and could pretty much last them a long time in adding new ones, so many designs they could add to them as well as shapes etc.

However atm I think the reason they are adding wings is because they tie in nicely with gliders and can earn them more cash from the glider/wing bundles. I hope they also get around to adding more gliders that tie in with some of the older wings too, just so my chars can have matching gliders/wings that suit the theme I have for those chars.

Having said all that I would like more things other than wings and capes too. More backpack types or misc things. So many things they could do.

I have a feeling the toys are going to be expanded on and very shortly! Incoming “mounts” variety is imminent, get your wallets ready boys and girls!

TexZero.7910:

Dante.1508:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Dante.1508:

Asking for Pistols and every class that has them already are like the worst weapons in the game…

Try engie with Pistols and then see how fun they are, or Thief even.

I find them fun. Probably not the most effective in pvp, but in pve they suit me just fine and with the right trenchcoat and hat and pistols akimbo, you feel like a wild west gunslinger.

I tried dual pistols on my Engineer in Hot and well to use an old quote “It didn’t end well”

I find weapons such as pistols need huge over hauls, to be even worth it in PvE.

What ?….

Dual Pistol is probably the most viable engi weapon set there is atm.

Hammer is a joke post Rocket charge nerf, 33% reduction to damage and sustain. Anything it can do Rifle can do sans personal reflect. Then there’s Shield which really is the one engie weapon in need of some major love, the cooldowns on it are really too long considering that Hammer reflect is pretty much 15s shorter, and hammer is an AoE….

Shield is great if you are into Breaking Bars (both 4 and 5!). There is a trait to lower the cooldown but even then, still too long….

On topic: Warrior pistols could be fun, Gunslinger (as mentioned above) could be a perfect Elite for them.

Dante.1508:

femalehumanmeta.8351:

Just a fyi, if you have very little interest in the story, and say only want to max tyrian masteries for things like auto loot, legendary crafting, and getting max rewards from fractals, that’s basically gated behind purchasing LWS2 as well, so spend your mastery points wisely because unless you have thousands of gold or enjoy massive amounts of grind, you won’t be able to max everything.

You can’t unlock any masteries unless you buy HoT, even Tyrian ones.

Guild wars 2 story
Theirs a Dragon

HoT Story

Theirs another Dragon.

Its not that hard to follow.

Um you’re wrong its the same dragon

No he/she is right it is a different dragon, but the grammar/spelling is wrong. :P

I don’t think it really matters in the end…….

Why do I say this? Well I do have both HOT and the LS2 and for new players having both it will still have a huge gap in the story because LS1 is missing. LS1 is what introduces most or our allies (Braham, Rox etc) unless I am confused. I have ran all my alts through LS2, yes I admit I may have skipped a lot of the scenes but I don’t recall any of our allies joining during it except for maybe Canach.

So to new players considering buying HOT: do so more for the features and content, less so for the story because you are only going to disappoint yourself. 1 because of the confusing story and 2 because it’s super short.

So to me I guess it just really comes down to weather or not LS2 should have been included with HOT? I can’t see why not tbh, no reason really not to. I mean you give the core game away with it so why not a part of the story between both?

Now that Colin is gone I doubt there are any who main Engi, such a sad day for those of us who do.

Cormac.3871:

Paulytnz.7619:

I feel your pain, my 200-300 ping keeps this adventure well and truly out of my reach….

I have 200-300 ping if everything is going well, and I can get silver on it. There are times when I can’t try it but that’s usually when I am suffering lag spikes.

I couldn’t even get Bronze after trying for about 10-15 mins lol. I watched the vid on youtube too and could see what I was meant to be doing but it was just not working for me. I could see where it was going wrong, jumps not registering or the old ping/lag issues that you see in Drytop with those skills. The server just picks it up too slow. They really need to make these adventures and jumps in general client side like they did for glider deployment. It would solve a lot of problems for a lot of people.

I have got Silver on pretty much every other adventure and gold on a couple/few of them, this one however is just one that wont play nice.